Wood was exemplary, scarcely looking in trouble, attacking Wahab at first, much to the evident disgruntlement of the bowler unused to such effrontery, but then, with the encouragement of Rashid, and the realisation that, just perhaps, there was a chance of seeing things out, starting to get his head down.
Add to this Britain's twenty-year diet of myths that the EU was out to strip the country of its uniqueness and it is little surprise that, given the chance to slam its front door to such effrontery, it double-locked it for good measure.
"Have you ever," he hissed, Sewell-like, "been in the presence of such… effrontery?" After his mother's death, Sewell, himself ailing from osteoporosis and a series of heart attacks, moved to a vast house in Wimbledon.
Charmed by a gesture of such Mozartian effrontery, they cheered wildly.
Speaking from New York, Broughton said: 'You have got to hand it to the Americans, they do things with such bald-faced effrontery.
The promise of immediate and radical change is a campaign fiction presented with such bald-faced effrontery that we hardly question it any more, unless it's coming from the other side.
It's somehow very entertaining, and its bizarre, in-your-face anachronisms are carried off with such insouciance, such cheerful effrontery, that you can't help indulging them.
They are again filled with Groucho's verbal effrontery (in lines such as "Remember, men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!") and surreal sight gags such as a live, barking dog that emerges from a doghouse tattooed on Harpo's chest.
With magnificent effrontery, the final credits give a tremulous "thank you" to Mexico City for being such a "special place".
In combining two journals, we are swimming against the tide of ever-proliferating new journals, a point remarked by Gregory Petsko in a Comment [ 2] written for us to mark the occasion and in which, with the verve and effrontery with which regular readers of his column in our sister journal Genome Biology will be familiar, he deplores such proliferation - inviting, perhaps, dissent.
The only effrontery left was the effrontery of dullness.
